We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.